One of the first non-trivial straight skeletons (as a roof model), from _Kotirte Ebenen (Kotirte Projektionen) und deren Anwendung_ by Gustav A. von Peschka (1877). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_skeleton
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